Officers appointed to look after cattle, etc. See Williams, Common, 232.

The taking in of another person’s cattle to be fed, or to pasture, upon one’s own land, in consideration of an agreed price to be paid by the owner. Also […]

One who takes in horses or other animals to pasture at certain rates. Story, Bailm.

the person who stirs up or incites a situation, especially a situation that is of discontent.

In the law of descents. Relations by the father. This word is used in the Scotch law, and by some writers as an English word, corresponding with the Latin agnati, […]

[From agnati, q. v.] Derived from or through males. 2 Bl. Comm. 230.

In the civil law . Relationship on the father’s side; agnation. Agnatio a patrc est. Inst 3, 5, 4; Id. 3, 6, 6.

Kinship by the father’s side. See AGNATES; AGNATI.

Lat. An additional name or title; a nickname. A name or title which a man gets by some action or peculiarity; the last of the four names sometimes given a […]

A surname; an additional name or title; agnomen.

Lat Lamb of God. A piece of white wax, in a flat, oval form, like a small cake, stamped with the figure of a lamb, and consecrated by the pope. […]

In French law . A solicitor practising solely in the tribunals of commerce.

Relating to land, or to a division or distribution of land; as an agrarian law .

the law that breaks up large holdings of land and distributes the land to a number of people. also known as Agragarian Reform Acts .

In Roman law. Laws for the distribution among the people, by public authority, of the lands constituting the public domain , usually territory conquered from an enemy. In common parlance […]

A tax upon or tribute payable out of land.

In old English law . Agreement; an agreement Spelman.

To concur; to come into harmony ; to give mutual assent ; to unite in mental action; to exchange promises; to make an agreement. To concur or acquiesce in; to […]

In Scotch law. Agreement; an agreement or contract.

Settled or established by agreement. This word in a deed creates a covenant. This word is a technical term, and it is synonymous with “contracted,” McKisick v. McKisick, Meigs (Tenn.) […]

A rule that states insurance and coinsurance must be the same amount.

A statement when all parties concerned submit to the court that is the agreement of essential facts. The court only needs to determine matters of law.

Regarding auto insurance, the price agreed to by the claimant’s chosen auto repair shop and the insurance adjuster to complete the work necessary to fix the damage to a vehicle.

The only difference between an agreed order and one which is made in the due course of the proceedings in an action is that in the one case it is […]

A statement of facts , agreed on by the parties as true and correct, to be submitted to a court for a ruling on the law of the ease. United […]